James 2:14
WHAT is the use, my brethren, if a man say, I have faith, and works he hath not? How can his faith save him?
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
In The King James Version
In Context
15And, if a brother or sister be naked, and wanting the food of to-day,
Cross References
Matthew 5:20For I say to you, that unless your righteousness shall abound more than that of the scribes and the Pharishee, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 7:26And every one who heareth these my words, and doeth them not, shall be likened to a man who built his house upon sand.
Acts 8:13And Simon also himself believed, and was baptized, and adhered to Philipos. And when he saw the signs and great works which were done by his hands, he wondered and was astonished.
Acts 15:9And nothing distinguished between us and them, because he had purified by faith their hearts.
1 Corinthians 13:2And though there were in me prophecy, and I knew all mysteries, and all knowledge, and though there were in me all faith, as that I could remove the mountain, and love were not in me, I should be nothing.
1 Corinthians 16:22Whosoever loveth not our Lord Jeshu Meshiha, let him be accursed. Our Lord cometh.
Matthew Henry on James 2:9-14
The Christian Law. ( a. d. 61.) 8 If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well: 9 But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors. 10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. 11 For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law. 12 So speak ye, and so… Read the whole commentary →